Barbed wire



W..A. ROOT.

BARBED WIRE."

(No Model.)

No. 281,300. Patented July 17, 1883.

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WILLIAM A. ROOT, C NEW YORK, N. Y.,- ASSIGNOR To WASHBURN & MoEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, or WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, AND

ISAAC L. ELLWOOD, 0E DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

BARBED WIRE. v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,300, dated July 17, 883.

Figure 1 represents a section of my improved barbed wire. Fig. 2 represents the same parts shown in Fig. 1, looking in the direction of arrow 1, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 represents a sec- I5 tion on line as as, Fig. 2, looking in direction of the arrow'2 of the same figure. I

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in de- I 20 tail.

In the drawings, the parts A A represent the main or longitudinal fence-wires, and the parts B B represent the barbed wires, and the opposite ends of these barbed wires B B are in- 2 5 terlocked or twisted together with their ends bent out to form barbs a a, as shown, while the middle portions of such barbed wiresare passed around and between the main wires, "but from opposite sides thereof, thereby lock- Application filed December 17. 1881. No model.)

ing the main wires together and'also securely o fastening the barbed wires to such main wires.

By my present improvement it will be observed thatthe bodies of both'barbed wires pass through between the main fence-wires A, but from opposite directions, and that the 3 5 barbed wires not only serve to interlock and fasten each other to the mainwires, but also serve the additional function of. fastening the main wires together.

Having described my improvements in 0 barbed wires, what I claim therein as newand of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y The combination, with two main fence-wires, of two barb-wires, each of which is wrapped 5 around one of the main fence-wires, with its ends crossing in the space between the main wires and projecting upon opposite sides of the cable, the respective ends of both barbwires which project upon the same sides of the 50 cable being thereafter twisted together and bent in opposite directions to form barbs, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM A. ooT.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, TI-Ios. H. DODGE. 

